How Mugabe can help Iran to realise dream of nuclear bomb

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Iran has coveted Africa’s rich deposits of uranium for years. As a fellow pariah state, it is no great surprise that the regime in Tehran should have found kindred spirits in Robert Mugabe’s Zimbabwe.

The Islamic Republic is fond of declaring its near self-sufficiency in uranium supplies for its disputed nuclear programme. As with many announcements by Tehran, however, those claims have only a slender basis in reality. It does have substantial uranium deposits and its largest uranium mine was opened recently amid great fanfare, but deposits are of poorer quality than those found elsewhere.